No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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Great souls endure in silence.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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As we no longer have an economic policy that is managed democratically, it should not be surprising that it produces unfair outcomes. Nor should it be surprising that in the wake of the mortgage crisis, Covid, the war in Ukraine and so-called Bidenflation, this unfairness would give rise to what Wolfgang Streeck calls “tendencies toward deglobalization” — such as those that emerged with a vengeance on November 5, 2024.
~ Christopher Caldwell
via This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time
published by The New York Times on November 28, 2024
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There’s no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding.
~ Henry James
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
~ James Baldwin
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success will be sure.
~ Mark Twain
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General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
~ George Santayana
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It wasn’t the New World that mattered … Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It’s life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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